Letter: Why stop at Angenica property?

What a great idea, having the town buy our property! I plan to go before the selectmen to sponsor buying my home at 29 Sewall St. for preservation.

To the editor:

What a great idea, having the town buy our property! I plan to go before the selectmen to sponsor buying my home at 29 Sewall St. for preservation. The town can rent it out to visitors who want to experience firsthand an old house with latch door handles, old pine floors, rub their fingers in soot in the attic, soot from long ago when trains used to come by. Old toilet, old clawfoot tub, old cellar where history was made: Gerry 5 clubhouse there.

Another home, Carol Haddock’s historical home: How about the town buying that and renting it out? Income could be derived if property bought by town utilized instead of buying property that produces no income.

Open space… open to whom? The elderly can’t get to Robinson Farm. Some too infirm, disabled. Only the young will be able to romp about. How about building small homes for elders forced out of their lifelong homes because high property taxes. How about building small homes for them — ME — on property at the end of West Shore Drive. I lived in that area three times. It’s a lovely place to live out my years. I would love a home to be built for me after the town buys this house. The town can have it for only $700,000!

Anyone else got a home to put before a special town meeting for Marblehead to buy?

Karin MartinSewall Street

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